Question about "wireless" printers.

[Kabob]

My wife and I are looking at this printer and we've got a question. I hear a lot about "wireless" printing, is that referring to the ability to print over your network or the printer having built in WiFi? If I can print over my network with a CAT5 cable that's fine, if the only way to do it is with USB hooked up to my PC that won't work.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

 

[Dangman]

Wireless printing means that the printer has built-in Wifi. If the printer comes with a NIC, then you can do network printing which lets you prting over your network.

 

[crustybooger]

if the printer has built in wifi then it just pretty much connects to your wireless network and then any pc/laptop/netbook on the network can print on that printer without having to be directly connected via usb/cat5.